President Hotel Mito — Hotel in Mito

The Holiday Inn Mito is a clean, friendly and reliable chain hotel that will feel familiar to any business or leisure traveler. While it has nothing particularly fantastic to set it apart from other Holiday Inns, its friendly staff and excellent location near Mito's transit links, business hubs and tourist locales make it a great choice for any kind of traveler, especially when good online rates can be found! Read on for more...||||LOCATION:||The Holiday Inn Mito is located just a few blocks from the south entrance of the Mito train station. As there are escalators and broad sidewalks the entire way, even travelers with lots of parcels or luggage should find this an easy walk. The hotel is located immediately adjacent to several convenience stores and casual restaurants (including an excellent Okonomiyaki shop a few blocks to the southwest - Kakurenbo), and is directly across the street from a large Pachinko palace. For those with leisure time, there is a footpath along the canal that will take you to Lake Senba and the surrounding gardens within about 15 minutes, and continues on to the beautiful (and famous!) Kairakuen Garden, within about a 30-40 minute hike from the hotel's front door.||||ROOMS:||The rooms are exactly what one would expect from a well-kept Holiday Inn. Clean, basic, slightly on the small side but spacious enough for 1 or 2 travelers to live in comfortably. The bed was a bit firm, but was in good condition. The bathrooms have a full bath, and an adjustable shower with good water pressure and temp. The spray-style Japanese toilet was a bit dated, but was clean and in good condition.||||AMENITIES:||Each room has wired Internet available free of charge, as well as basic Japanese TV, with pay TV cards available for purchase. The hotel has a Chinese restaurant in-house that serves 3 meals daily, and presents a Western-style breakfast each morning (though the Asian breakfast offerings were far superior in my opinion). There is a rooftop bar open during the summer months, but has already closed for the year as of Oct 15 despite the mild weather. The indoor bar is currently closed for renovation into a party center, with a scheduled opening of November 2008. So if you want a drink in the evenings right now, your options are either to sit in the restaurant, visit a nearby pub, or get take-away from the 7/11 store across the street.||||STAFF:||The front desk staff were uniformly fluent in both Japanese and English, and were very helpful with directions, restaurant recommendations and other basic inquiries. They were very customer responsive, and did their best to fulfill requests -- all of the basics, such as late checkout and luggage storage, were handled promptly and politely.||||Overall, this was a great hotel for my stay in Mito and while there was nothing spectacular to set it apart as a real gem, it was reliable and everything one could hope for from a Holiday Inn. While there are plenty of other hotels in Mito, one would do well to investigate some of them thoroughly before booking remotely, as at least a few looked like they might be converted Japanese "love hotels", and still offered hourly rates advertised on their front placards. No such surprises at the Holiday Inn, and for basic business or casual travelers, this hotel would be a...

🛏️ great hotel a little south of Mito Station. staff members are all professional, nice, and friendly. rooms are quite large for this price range in Japan. though the views aren't amazing, it's good value overall, with nothing much to complain about.

🧹 check-in from 14:00, check-out until 11:00. room cleaning service can be expected and uses a standard system, following magnetic strips that you paste to the front of your door: either "do not disturb", or "make up room", which you can expect to be done during the cleaning hours between 11:00 and 14:00, though it may begin a little earlier.

🛋️ simple and tasteful room design and furnishing. not one—but two!—desks with corresponding chairs in my room, which are comfortable and suitable for working. air-conditioning works well, with responsive temperature control. an air purifier is also provided. window can be opened for fresh air. yellow lights in the room make for good ambience. bedside lamp brightness is adjustable with a knob, making for good mood lighting. bathroom has a good and decently-sized layout. water heating works well and is responsive, and the temperature control in the tub uses a very convenient, one-knob design. three clothes hangers are provided, in a little nook of the room that has a railing to hang them from. though towels and pyjamas are provided in the room, you'll have to pick up most smaller bathroom amenities in the lobby, near the front counter.

🥞 breakfast buffet is pretty good, with a concise yet sufficient spread, held at the 12th floor. if you've paid for breakfast at check-in, you'll immediately receive breakfast tickets for each morning of your stay's duration, each of which you'll hand over at the breakfast venue each morning.

📍 Mito Station is only about a 5-minute walk away, making it pretty convenient located. a 7-11 convenience store is right across the street from the entrance, so it's really easy to grab miscellaneous items. the Kairakuen park is easy to get to in a straight shot, albeit a little ways away, about 20-30 minutes by foot. that's made up by the fact that the route to get there runs along the scenic Senba Lake, so it's...

My friends and I were traveling around Tokyo and planned a one night stay in Mito, here at the President Hotel. The morning of 3/11/11 we dropped our luggage off and planned to return later in the day to check into our room. That afternoon the earthquake hit, and when we made it back to the hotel - no one was able to stay in the rooms (because of the damage, loss of power, and water) but we could stay in the Banquet Room with the other guests. They brought us tea, water, snacks, down comforters, sheets, and chairs to help us be as comfortable as possible. Our water supply (for the bathrooms) came from the hotel's own emergency tanks and the power was restored on the afternoon of 3/12. Because of the break-down in transportation in Mito, we were unable to get to the airport and thus stayed at the President Hotel for a total of 3 nights. ||I know this isn't your typical hotel review - but the reason I'm writing this is to tell you how truly thankful and appreciative I was of their care and service. Even the President of the hotel was there daily to help out. We were never charged for our stay, and they continually fed us and provided for us in as many ways they could. I don't know what the situation was at other hotels in the area after this earthquake, but I think the President Hotel went above and beyond given the situation, and I would highly recommend them to any traveler in...